Still trying here. No way to compile uQLx yet. I use Raspbian with the Raspberry Pi. I didn't succeed with standard Debian in the Pandora either.Mr_Navigator wrote: Has anyone made any progress installing a QL emulator on the Raspi yet?
Rob,robheaton wrote:My only issue is, I can't get the emulator to produce a decent size display.
Anyone got any pointers?
After playing around with it for a while, I realised how dauntng it is to start from scratch. Afterall, its not just a matter of plug and play, as, if you were lucky, the QL was out of the box in its day. Theres Linux and bash to get through for starters, and getting Python to go isnt as easy as booting in to SuperBASIC. The upshot is that I bought one for myself so that I could (hopefully) offer him some telephone support should he get stuck.
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Great!. Did you use the image that is on Dillwyn's site?pjw wrote: A few hours after unpacking I had uQLx running my (heavily redacted, but otherwise standard) boot file. Hooray! (Brag photo included below
Well - It's trying to emulate a real QL, which is kindof more difficult than what QPC is doing. QPC can rely on a heavily adapted SMSQ/E that suits its specific needs, while uQLX needs to be able to run stock QL ROMs. Seen from this side, it would be actually be a much fairer comparison to compete against Q-Emulator in terms of speed than QPC2.pjw wrote: Its heavy going away from the light and ease of QPC; lots of missing bits, and of course colours.
The RPi as such isn't exactly fast eitherpjw wrote: Its not fast: QPC on a Wintel box at 2.26 GHz ran my standard test program (just to get a general idea) in 19 seconds with 10k iterations. QPC/Wintel did 100k in 9s, ie its about 20x faster.
But uQLX on the RPi is still much faster than the original BB. Even with a GoldCard.Actually, uQLX could look a lot different (rather: a lot simpler) if it were allowed to run a tailor-made SMSQ/E. And it could also be a lot faster, as pointed out above. But I'm not sure if I would start such a project - Actually, there' s quite a lot of well-made Emulators "on the market" already.pjw wrote: Visualise a tiny Raspberry Pi running uQLx with Smsq/e. Perhaps it could even be made to do something useful, like control real-world events via the Pi's GPIO (General Purpose I/O) port? Would that be a nice community project to work on (until and during retirement
Simple answer: It's just not implemented. Both the RENAME and the MAKE_DIR support is not implemented in the QXL.WIN code in uQLX as of today. Both would probably be quite easy to program given the amount of example code that is around. The simplest cure would be not to use QXL.WIN but instead the "native" Linux file system - which is what I do, that has both functions implemented (and a number of other interesting features like long filename support), if I recall right.pjw wrote: In the mean time Im stuck with two big issues: I cannot rename files on the QXL.win drives, nor can I create directories on them. Anyone know of a cure?
My main bother was configuring the QL side, once installed, as uQLx/Minerva and QPC/smsqe have diverged considerably.